Thai fruit picker jailed 9 years in Vic

A Thai fruit picker who stabbed a former girlfriend three times in the chest after she'd dumped him for punching her has been jailed for nine years in Victoria.

Charan Hannarong, 40, attacked 28-year-old mother-of-three Pentarkarn Yoosuan with a steak knife after she refused his requests to romantically reunite.

He had pleaded guilty to the charge of attempted murder for the attack, which occurred in Wangaratta during November 2015.

Hannarong and the young woman had met as fruit pickers on a farm in the state's northeast, started dating and then moved in together.

Both were in Australia to work and to send money back to their families in Thailand.

During sentencing in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Thursday, Justice Christopher Beale said before the attempted murder, Hannarong had punched Ms Yoosuan in the head while he was drunk, causing her to end their relationship.

When she refused to reunite, he approached her in the backyard at a friend's party.